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...Andover, too, has its Morgan partner: Thomas Cochran, class of 1890, whose many sifts, the latest being the school's new art gallery (TIME, May 25), have made him Andover's greatest benefactor. Of late years the school has become his all-absorbing interest...
Sirs: Your mention of Buck Duke (Duke's Mixture, Duke Power Co., Duke University) in TIME, April 27, brings to mind an incident frequently quoted in this section. A new Methodist minister in Durham met his Church's famous benefactor for the first time. Asked he. "Are you the Buck Duke who belongs to -he First Methodist Church?" Answered Buck, "No, I'm the Buck Duke the First Methodist Church belongs to." BERTRAM H. BROWN...
...late Col. Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan libel lawyer: $1,215,318, to Cornell University of which he was a trustee and frequent benefactor (some $900.000), and to relatives and learned societies...
...people of the South realize that the damyank folks of the North were really as kind, as generous, as truly human as the "old South" folks themselves were. In my mind I was already attaching the label of true liberalism and tolerance to the memory of this would-be benefactor...
...together. When its sales earned them big money, Dr. John Harvey insisted on spending the money on sociological activities-child welfare, public health, race improvement. Will Keith insisted on letting the business amass a fortune before giving the money away. His viewpoint was that business should be the benefactor of society. His brother's view was that business should be the servant of society. Their ultimate purpose was the same-giving away their fortunes...